Four Israeli Arabs were convicted of unwittingly harboring a Palestinian suicide bomber. Four members of the Bakri family hid the terrorist in their village of Bana in August 2002 without knowing of his plan to bomb a bus at the Meron junction, an Israeli court ruled Wednesday. But the four were found guilty of obstructing justice for not cooperating with the investigation.
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